Selfportraits

Mechanical pencils (0.3, 0.5, 0.7) on paper.
Each 70x110cm, 2020.

Based on the observation of fragments of my body under the microscope, these self-portraits of a different kind offer a new way of understanding the self. The series of drawings, titled ‘Selfportraits,’ presents a biased approach to this famous physical envelope, the point of contact between oneself and the world. At first glance abstract, these drawings prompt viewers to search for a subject. Are they mountains, layers, or bark? Undoubtedly, they represent the accumulation of successive layers, those of the cells in our bodies. When viewed under the microscope, these pieces of us, of me, blend with the elements that compose our world, reminding us that we are integral parts of the whole.

My body, scrutinized with extreme precision, here sheds all the stereotypes commonly attributed to the female body to become a subject modeled by the cognitive habits of each observer.